Float the Boat

Honoring One In A Million Women in Coastal Conservation

We are delighted to announce Artist Boat’s upcoming signature fundraising event, Float the Boat, a dinner series November 12, 13, 19, and 20, 2021. We will be gathering again under the stars, on the coastal prairie, at Artist Boat Coastal Heritage Preserve over four dinner events honoring One In A Million Women in Coastal Conservation each evening.

• Advocacy: Diane Wilson, Activist and Author, November 12
• Restoration: Linda Shead, Shead Conservation Solutions, November 13
• Conservation: Helen Drummond, Executive Director of Houston Audubon, November 19
• Leadership: Cherie O’Brien, Natural Resource Specialist, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, November 20

Each evening will be from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. hosted under a tent for 100 guests on the Coastal Heritage Preserve. The evening will include a catered meal by The Mosquito Café and Patty Cakes, a curated menu of beer and wine, a selected signature cocktail, live music to enjoy the wilds, open trails and sunsets, and a live auction. Gather your special friends and join us with a sponsorship.

Come early and walk trails, eat dinner watching the bay sunset, and drift with us into quietly lighted tables for dinner with live music.

We are thrilled to honor One In A Million Women in Coastal Conservation at this year’s dinner series. We hope you will join them in their support of our amazing organization by strengthening your commitment to Artist Boat. Your support will directly benefit the wildlife that depends upon our region’s natural resources and wild places, help conserve more land, and assure we are here in the future to ensure that more youth will experience these wilds with Artist Boat.

Please become a presenting sponsor as we honor Diane Wilson, Linda Shead, Helen Drummond, and Cherie O’Brien, and celebrate the established and growing Coastal Heritage Preserve! Artist Boat is the leader in land conservation and restoration efforts on Galveston Island with a goal to preserve 1,400 acres (775 are conserved and 135 are in progress). Artist Boat’s mission is to promote awareness and preservation of coastal margins and the marine environment through the disciplines of the sciences and the arts.